Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Thirty Days Have September...

April, June, and November. So okay, Kate won't be finished today. It will be by the 1st week of July. I even dreamed about it last night, something I've never done before--dreaming about a book I was working on. But I didn't dream about the book, it was a character within the soap opera described in the book. Weird.

I've been concerned that the soap dialog isn't very good but it's not something I can redo. There's so much of it from the original version, I feel stuck with it. Then this morning I watched ALL MY CHILDREN and I was shrieking at the TV the dialog was so horrible, so much worse than LIFE TO ITS FULLEST.

I wasn't good enough to write for ALL MY CHILDREN. I was once on a conference call with a couple of their writers and Aggie Nixon, trying to do some sample breakdowns. Afterward I was told I just wasn't clever enough to write breakdowns. (After doing a hundred of them or whatever for THE DOCTORS when I was headwriter there.)

I'm glad I had the opportunity to work in daytime, it fulfilled a dream of mine (not one with CAREY CROSS in it, tho) but it literally took me years to overcome all the bad writing ticks I acquired in even that short a time.